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Hi Craig, There was a Q&A session arranged by Mantis with Gene Wolfe back in 1997 in which the following exchange took place: 25. "Does Green/Blue have anything to do with THE FIF…
11 May 2010, 08:26
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It's treatable with punicillin, but should the patient fail to respond all the doctors can do is make them as punless as possible. To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.…
26 Apr 2010, 09:12
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Hi John, FWIW I agree. Similar experience - Catholic educated until 17 and I was clear from a young age that they were two different places/experiences. _______________________…
21 Dec 2009, 10:28
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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) The Guild's Revolutionary Message-ID: <CB1CCF052BBA41FABC5DAC6EE8…
23 Nov 2009, 16:26
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Hi, I'm not very good at framing these thoughts well but here is a question for the list. I have scanned the archives but didn't find this mentioned. Catherine/Katherine the pat…
10 Nov 2009, 13:58
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Hello, I am reading through old, old archives at the moment and came across speculation as to where Cim Glowing as a name could have come from. Sample post: http://www.urth.net/u…
19 Oct 2009, 14:29
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It's been pretty quiet here lately so I thought I might post a link: http://www.avclub.com/articles/john-crowley,32458/ John Crowley interview above. It's not bad. I like his de…
03 Sep 2009, 10:22
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Hi all, Not sure if this has been posted before; I couldn't find it in the archives. Check out the third definition of Jonah (from which Jonas is derived) as given below: http:/…
27 Jul 2009, 16:11
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James, I think the flight of wealthy Americans to Ireland is as we had until recently a special law here allowing artists to pay no tax. The law has since been done away with and…
20 May 2009, 09:20
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I agree with you totally here Adam. How is "theft" defined outside of the idea of "property"? Given that what is the fundamental basis for assuming that people have a right to p…
20 May 2009, 09:10
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Brian, let's posit that the Neighbors are dryads--that their steady physical form is one of the "sleepy trees" in the forests of Blue. How do the inhumi make the jump to become v…
29 Apr 2009, 10:43
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With that in mind, anyone seen Michael Andre-Drussi's article on the IROSF today? http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10536 I quite enjoyed it. Although I do like his style of w…
03 Apr 2009, 09:48
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20 Mar 2009, 16:13
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I don't have the text to hand but IIRC there is a passage in IGJ where the Neighbours say that they worshipped the mother once but do not anymore ______________________ __________…
20 Mar 2009, 16:12
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------------------------------ I always thought of the Hieros as quite emotional for instance the below when Severian meets Famulimus for the first time. The being Dr. Talos ha…
11 Feb 2009, 14:09
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A couple of theories on the mystery of the guild from the archives: 1) That it has to do with Auturchs and the rearing of them http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0304/3112.txt.sh…
11 Feb 2009, 10:53
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___ Severian certainly uses the word "mystery" in that sense. Two examples: "I'm beginning to think that by practicing the mystery of our guild while you and I are travelling, I…
10 Feb 2009, 16:57
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For those also posting over on the Gene Wolfe Book Club I have just posted something similar there but in brief, I wonder if Severian is not so much Christ as Saul (Paul of Tarsus…
10 Feb 2009, 14:56
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I am fully on-board in the thoughts that Severian is a quasi-Christ (as has been said here a number of times and a number of different ways that he represents some of the aspects o…
10 Feb 2009, 11:14
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Up until I saw it the film with the best thought out timeline I had seen had to be Back to the Future. I know it may seem like a kid's film but they really thought through their t…
06 Feb 2009, 14:34
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Thanks for that! On the Cumaean I always think it is great that Wolfe introduces these beings with various powers but doesn't bother chasing them down, explaining them, etc. They …
06 Feb 2009, 14:17
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SonOfWitz, as a long standing member of the Church of Odin (I am due to receive my celebratory pair of imitation ravens this weekend in the Valhalla Restaurant and Public House) I …
05 Feb 2009, 11:49
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Of course! [Slaps head] Thanks for that Jeff, of course the creatures are summoned. OK, so maybe what happens is that something comes back and whatever it is takes on some of the …
04 Feb 2009, 11:00
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Yeah, well, that is fair, it is not clear what happens, this is Wolfe after all! Whether Inire conjures up some kind of cat or whether Inire summons the cat back through the mirror…
04 Feb 2009, 10:16
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Hi all, I was just thinking on the story of The Cat in Endangered Species. Set in the same universe as BOTNS. Specifically, the following occurred to me: The titular moggie is to…
03 Feb 2009, 12:37
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I am coming late to Wolfe so I am not sure how the books were written. I was under the impression that BOTLS formed a singular entity and that BOTSS was a later book written in the…
26 Jan 2009, 17:00
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*Some mild BOTLS spoilers and more serious BOTSS spoilers below* I kind of had a problem with this as well in that the answer seems to lie outside the BOTLS. When I read BOTLS I a…
26 Jan 2009, 11:16
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Agreed, my question is this: Is Mucor a daughter of Typhon (and Krypis perhaps? as indicated by her having similar powers to Typhon)? Or is she an unconnected individual who one of…
21 Jan 2009, 17:05
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21 Jan 2009, 16:42
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On the matter of Long Sun laughs (and I don't have the text to hand) but I remember a wonderful passage: Silk is in his room brooding. Oreb interrupts him with "Silk Good. Fish h…
21 Jan 2009, 16:08
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Agreed Greg, furthermore, the image of a bowling ball resting on a tennis racket (as opposed to a tennis ball) is used to describe a super-dense object's effects on gravity. One…
19 Jan 2009, 12:59
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Has anyone heard of the book "The Three Suns of Amara" by William F. Temple? http://www.buy.com/prod/the-three-suns-of-amara/q/loc/106/36261637.html I read about it here: http://…
12 Dec 2008, 13:06
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Agreed, but is the leeway on his understanding of geological processes or engineering processes? :) No I didn't. "Are we to presume Wolfe has worked this thing out perfectly so t…
05 Dec 2008, 16:22
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Hahaha, Brilliant! Thanks Brunians! Man, I think Ghoul is going to be one my new favourite words.…
03 Dec 2008, 16:24
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Hi fellow Tim! While I think the central question of how far in the future of the book is unknowable (I don't think Wolfe knows based on interview) there are two strong options eme…
03 Dec 2008, 12:13
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Hi Son of Witz, I don't think there is a strong difference between them at all. Mantis came up with a useful (to me anyway) rule of thumb a while back. "Wolfe uses (or seems to …
03 Dec 2008, 12:02
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Apologies for the previous post, my email is being very buggy the last few days.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale "The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a …
02 Dec 2008, 16:52
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Just as an aside on the energy levels and Urth. I am sure most of you are aware of this scale: ***********************************************************************************…
02 Dec 2008, 16:49
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Hi Dave, I would be very much in agreement with you. And again, I do not think that the amount of time that has passed or the source of energy is very important to the text (unl…
02 Dec 2008, 16:17
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Another question that struck me recently - are there Inhuma on Urth? When Baldanders/Talos and Severian/Jolenta/Dorcas part in the woods after the staging of the play at House Abso…
02 Dec 2008, 13:18
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The mountain faces are precisely as believable as Mt. Rushmore and Georgia's Stone Mountain. -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com <http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net> <…
02 Dec 2008, 09:53
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Before I comment on the email below just a note on Wolfe and "hard" sci-fi. While Wolfe doesn't go out of his way to burden every device with a hard science grounding, he is an eng…
02 Dec 2008, 09:38
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Hi David, I thought that Nessus = Buenos Ares was accepted here but I could be wrong. In the archives I can find the following discussions: http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-…
01 Dec 2008, 16:43
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Trusty engineering in the US of A! GW giving props to his colleagues! Besides the issues with being on the wrong continent, I think another problem is that the site is in the mid…
01 Dec 2008, 15:35
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Apologies to James Wynn, The formatting on my last post went a little screwy so it looks like I am attributing my comments to you. Any of my muddles should be assigned to me and …
01 Dec 2008, 14:33
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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com> Subject: Re: (urth) House Absolute To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Message-ID: <E0FE84CC44054E5DB9AC0D17C340A7EB at G…
01 Dec 2008, 14:17
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I don't have the text to hand so I cannot verify till I get home however I don't think the House Absolute is in Nessus at all. Did Severian not travel North for some time before …
01 Dec 2008, 12:19
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I recently got my brother hooked on Wolfe and he made a very interesting suggestion that I haven't found in the Archives. Could House Absolute be Mt Cheyenne the American undergrou…
01 Dec 2008, 11:02
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Hi, I hope all is well. Living as I do in Ireland it can be difficult to get copies of Gene Wolfe's books. So I was delighted today to be able to pick up a copy of Endangered Sp…
29 Aug 2008, 13:15
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Hi Paul, The point that I took from this discussion, and I think it is valid, is that the Hieros have the ability to perceive more of the universe than humans; they experience tim…
15 Jul 2008, 08:37
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